Word: parke
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Witteman and Sportswriter B.J. Phillips, who wrote the story, both belong to TIME'S softball team, which plays in Central Park and so far has been undefeated this year. Phillips is one of the nation's few top-notch woman sportswriters. A baseball devotee since she was little, she used to write fan letters to Willie Mays. "It's hard to explain why you love baseball without sounding like a professor or a 10-year-old kid," says Phillips. "A case can be made for the mental elegance of the game-its beauty, its symmetry, its exquisite...
While many Americans will be out at the old ball park this summer, others will be taking to the air on vacations and business trips. In this issue we provide those travelers with an airport guide that rates the ten busiest airports in the U.S., plus four in Europe and six in the Far East, taking into consideration such matters as the number of times planes are delayed, accessibility, parking and general amenities. In addition to reporting from TIME correspondents who use airports frequently, we used files from Correspondent Marion Knox, who flew in and out of each...
...sultry night in Queens, thirsty for a thunderstorm that will come too late, but 250 middle-class homeowners stay dutifully in their hard little folding chairs. They are at the Bell Park Jewish Center to inspect mayoral candidates. Congressman Ed Koch leads off-witty, whimsical, wise-and he suggests that Abzug is a demagogue for promising that she would wrest more federal help for the beleaguered city. He gets polite applause...
...trouble is that the writers could not talk anybody into letting them blow up another roller coaster, or even seriously threaten one, for the climax. So the movie just sort of peters out as everybody chases about at Los Angeles' Magic Mountain park. Couldn't hero and villain at least have wrestled around up there atop the scary Magic Mountain coaster? Why did they bring Segal's daughter near the ride if they were not going to put her on it and thus into thrilling jeopardy...
...itself as egalitarian though it is much impressed by class. Buck and Jim turned their raft into a royal bedchamber for the King and the Duke, Grace Kelly got a regal send-off when she left Hollywood to become Princess to the world's finest amusement park, and the Kennedys were empurpled by the press...